The mailbox of the last house on the route was finally filled with mail. The lid closed and the tired mailpony wiped sweat from her forehead. It had been a long day, and she couldn't wait to get home to her Husband and filly. She started flying to the post office drop off her uniform. Another pegasi flew up to her.
"Hey Raindrops!" the mailpony greeted her.
"Hey Derpy Hooves!" replied Raindrops, "I've got to hurry, see ya!"
The mailpony watched Raindrops fly away. Her smile got smaller.
"Nopony ever remembers my real name..." she sighed, and flew off.
She arrived at the post office and dropped off her uniform. As she was leaving her boss, a mare named Postal Stamps, greeted her.
"Hello Derpy!" she said, "Good day today?"
"Uh yeah!" the mailpony replied, "It was...great...well I better get going."
"See you tomorrow then!" said Postal Stamps, going back into her office.
"Yeah, okay," the mailpony replied then whispered, "why doesn't anypony remember that my name is Ditzy Do, not...Derpy Hooves..."
Trying to fight off tears that were threatening to come out, she walked out of the post office. Her wings were still tired from her workday, so she decided to walk home. Walking down the street, she bumped into two other mares.
"Oh, sorry!" Ditzy exclaimed apologetically.
"Oh it's okay Derpy!" replied the cream colored earth pony named Bon Bon.
"Yeah its okay," said the other, a sea-green unicorn named Lyra Heartstrings, "no need to apologize. everypony knows that you can't see str-" She was cut off by Bon Bon, who elbowed her.
"Don't be rude!" Bon Bon hissed to Lyra, then turned to Ditzy, "We'd best be going now. See you around Derpy!"
They walked away, and this time Ditzy couldn't hold back her tears. She flew off, not wanting to go home crying.
She flew to a lake outside of PonyVille, and looked into it, tears streaming down her face. She remembered before the medicsl condition with her eyes went permanent, back when her eyes were normal, and nopony called her Derpy Hooves.
"Why can't I be...normal?" she whispered to herself.
She closed her eyes, and remembered what the doctors told her back when she was a filly. They told her that she had some strange condition with her eyes. Every so often, her eyes would go all wonky, but only for a minute or so. So, she grew up and got used to these odd short periods of her not able to see straight. But then, it happened.
It was just a normal day, and Ditzy was just flying in the sky, when another pegasi crashed into her. She fell to the ground and hit her head really hard on the road. She was unconscious for a few days with a concussion, and then woke up in the hospital. She noticed right away that her vision was funny, and figured that she just woke up in the minute or so that her eyes went funny. But then the doctor came in and when he found her awake, told her that the hit to the head damaged her eyes, and said that her eyes would be like that permanently. She was saddened by this, but didn't think it would be that bad of a thing. She got out of the hospital, and for the first few days she stumbled a lot and crashed into things. That's when many ponies started jokingly calling her Derpy Hooves. But even when she got used to it, they kept calling her that.
Ditzy looked into the lake and sighed, still crying.
"And then everypony forgot my name..."